Final Bitchy Blog: Things about [some] gamers that annoy the piss out of me

Because what better way to say goodbye then to bitch about shit?

I've already written about shit along these lines before, and in fact I had planned to roll out a separate blog post for the rest of what you see here over time. Then Jeremy informed everyone that 1up was dead -long live the King- and that put an end to that. However, since I don't want to leave 1up without posting one final blog, but because I'm too bummed out about the site's death to really be all that enthusiastic about it, I figured I'd drop a half-assed list in your lap at the very least. Please accept my apologies.

Anyway, without further ado, here's a list of shit that annoys me:

1. The sort of gamer who claims to be a fan of a given franchise, but who will flip his shit should its developer implement even the most innocuous of changes in a sequel, never once so much as even considering giving it a fair chance like a genuine fan would.

2. People who think that having bought one or two of its games at some point in the past entitles them to make demands of a developer and/or publisher.

3. People who expect that every game should reinvent the wheel, and who dismiss games that don't as crap without ever playing them.

4. People who are dismissive of sequels as a rule, regardless of their quality.

5. People who bemoan a lack of new intellectual properties, but who tend to ignore them whenever they're released.

6. People who jump on the bandwagon for a fantastic game that unfortunately didn't sell as well as it probably deserved to, just because someone in the gaming press put it on his or her list of criminally overlooked games.

7. Fanboys and their inspipid dick-waving contests.

8. People who don't understand that in spite of the immense creativity that drives it, the video-game industry is in fact a business.

9. People who use Gamestop like a glorified rental service while bitching about online passes.

10. People who bitch about online passes in general.

11. People who buy used games that are under the impression that the very folks who they decided didn't deserve to be paid for their hard work are for some strange reason still completely beholden to their every whim.

12. People who vilify DLC as a rule rather than evaluating it on a case-by-case basis.

13. People who will buy games that feature on-disk DLC, online passes, or whatever else that they personally object to because they don't have the willpower necessary to keep their wallets closed.

14. People who do that, but still bitch about all of it anyway.

14. People who bitch about how much games cost these days compared to last generation.

15. People who place way too much importance in their gamer score or trophy level, and who look down on people whose own are lesser than theirs.

16. People who play crappy games in order to boost their gamer scores or trophy levels.

17. People who write-off legitimately good games as being kiddy just because they don't have blood and gore and four-letter words.

18. People who think that casual gamers aren't "real" gamers at all.

19. People who think that casual games aren't real games.

20. People who take pleasure from negative reviews for games that are exclusive to systems that they don't own.

21. People who can't seem to understand that any inconsistencies that they think they see in the reviews on a given video-game website can actually be explained by the fact that they were most likely written by different people, each of whom have their own unique tastes and preferences.

22. People who accuse video-game critics of corruption, not because they have any evidence of it, but because the critic dared express an opinion with which they disagree.

I should probably put another few in to round it at at 25, but this is enough bitching for one night. As always, comments are welcome. And hey, who knows? I may even respond this time. I mean, what better time to stop being a lazy douche-nozzle than right when everything's coming to an end and it no longer matters? That's how I roll, yo.

Comments (5)

18 and 19

Piss me off the most. Thank you for stating them. As far as I'm concerned, casual gamers aren't hopped up on the 'Kool-Aid' and notice stupid things in games that 'core' gamers give a free pass to. And then, instead of trying to find an explanation for those discrepancies, core gamers get all defensive about how games are just like that.

Also, most of my fondest memories of awesome multiplayer experiences involved all of my casual gamer friends and relatives who would rather have fun than turn everything into a serious competition.

8, 17, and 21

I swear it's as if everything a company does to gain money or protect their property is villified now. I wanted to bring that up on a recent blog I commented on Pixlbit, but I didn't feel like entering the special olympics as an able-bodied person (arguing online as a literate person), so I just found something kind of frivolous to comment on. I regret that slightly right now.

And I hated when Mario Sunshine hit, and everyone dismissed it as "gay" (I was in middle school, we were all idiots); that was some of the most fun I had playing a Mario title, so what if it's for kids?

21 is just a problem in general; I admit, I use aggregate sites like Rottentomatoes and Metacritic, because I don't feel like reading every single review, but I at least skim and look at the summaries to get a decent idea of WHY those numbers are there.

Oh, critics hate Kick-Ass cause Hit Girl is immoral? Fuck that, I'll love that movie mostly because of her (and I did, favorite film of 2010)! Oh, critics love Majora's Mask for the time mechanic? I don't. (I do love the dark story, atmosphere, music and masks though)

In general, I think people really need to understand that while awards and reviews are nice, they are numbers based on subjective opinions, not actual mathematical representations of something's worth.

1 and 14

#1 Makes me think about Konami's Silent Hill Series. The game that sort of convinced me to check out previous installments in the series was Silent Hill 4: The Room,

I dunno, it would've been really neat if Silent Hill became Konami's IP for Survival Horror games. Kind of like what Square had with the Final Fantasy series.

Like, rather than having every new release trying to re-establish what the Silent Hill series is known for. It would've been really cool if like, each installment, was drastically different and focused on a particular aspect of fear, rather than a survivor horror franchise that tries to restablish itself and focuses on melee combat and quicktime events. I dunno.

cyberxion

I'm guilty of NONE OF THESE! Okay, I've probably been guilty of all of these at least once. lol. It's the nature of the beast and I think all gamers/geeks are petty on occasion. Btw, feel free to visit me at pixlbit,bro. You might have already set up shop there but I'm still trying to see where everyone has ended up.